Jan 05, 2004 20:03
B2K producer Chris Stokes told Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, radio station Power 99's Hot Boyz that the band was breaking up during a recent interview.
Stokes, who directed the upcoming movie You Got Served which stars B2K, Marques Houston, Lil Kim, and Steve Harvey, will be released on January 30. He says the group has six songs on the soundtrack album and confirms this will be their last CD.
"It's a great new year, we've got good things going on but we've got a little bit of sad," Stokes said. "It is true that B2K is now broken up. It is real."
He explained that he had nothing to do with the breakup. "I'm very sad," Stokes said. "I want them to be together. But there was a little bit of little feuding going on and they weren¹t able to keep it together. But they love their fans dearly and the girls have to know out there that they love them."
He told radio audiences that Omario is currently in the hospital and that B2K's current tour was postponed for that reason. Stokes told the DJs that "they are going to try to come together as a group to finish those dates for the fans, but as a group they are officially broken up."
Omario has been working on a solo album, and his first single is scheduled to hit radio in February and he will tour this summer. Still, Stokes said that Omario's budding solo career was not the impetus for the breakup of the group.
"On the Internet they're asking if Omario... if it's a Beyonce kind of thing," Stokes said. "In the first case, nobody knew what went on with Beyonce behind closed doors either. Nobody should point the finger. It was not a Omarion thing at all. It's a neutral thing. It's not a Omarion thing. It's not a Raz B thing. It's not Lil Fizz thing. It's not J-Boog thing. They just didn¹t work out as a group. But you guys have to know out there that I love this group. I put it together for the world and it's not a group I want to go away. But to be honest with you behind closed doors it was not working any more."